Palimpsest of Love
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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Eleven fifty-nine
...Like your favorite ambrosian juice and long caramel series, there's always an end. Everything has an end. The arcane rainbow, the beating rain, your aching pain. Hunger is a feeling, and to conquer i...
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Categories:
balmily, change, cheer up, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Glorious Whispering
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Written: June 02, 2024 For Regina McIntoch Contest
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Discovering God doesn't bear broad browsing
He's all over on Earth's orbit or ...
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Categories:
balmily, appreciation, god,
Form: Free verse
Pure Heart - Mirror
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Written: April 25, 2024, For Sara Kendrick Mirror Contest
Rumi Quote 4: " The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of
infinite beauty are reflected"
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Categories:
balmily, appreciation, heart, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Exhibition
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Written: April 20, 2024
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Dappled gold shimmers in spring—wake us,
A vibrant vroom, with azaleas and crocus.
Light beams teasing...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Mama
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Rumi Quote: "We are born of love; Love is our mother."
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Peering out the window
under ominous moon
you...
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Categories:
balmily, appreciation, mother,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey Scope
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Written: December 28, 2023
Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with
Calyx e...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, angel, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Stars of Clarity
...Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than t...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, appreciation, beauty, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Elixir of Silence
...Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, appreciation, silence,
Form: Rhyme
The Wayfarer Creed
...To what zenith do our chimeras whither?
As we travel across discombobulated shores?
Do we strive to collocate together?
Or breed discord and close the doors?
The wayfarer creed is t...
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Categories:
balmily, analogy, appreciation, beauty, together,
Form: Rhyme